Covered with sand and a low water supply, the desert still supports cactus and other life forms. In all this desolation, it is amazing how anything can exist in these conditions but even humans have adapted to life in the deserts of the world. Learn more about how the desert has sustained these life forms with rich soil and unique water storage methods. Also find out about the many different types of deserts and how they vary from other biomes.
This book provides intensive and enjoyable practice in features of English pronunciation that INTERMEDIATE and ADVANCED students find diffucult. The clever and convincing dialogues concentrate on stress timing,weak forms, contractions and linking and consonant clusters as well as providing valuable intonation pratices.
This book makes techniques widely used in the field of discourse analysis accessible to a broad audience and illustrates their application in the study of classroom talk. Separate chapters illustrate the analysis of interactional resources such as turn taking, participation frameworks, narrative and contextualization cues, modeling forms of discourse analysis teachers may practice in their classrooms.
This book has a broad application. It is intended to provide useful forms for all businesses, whatever their legal structure may be. Therefore, for businesses run as partnerships, sole proprietorships, corporations or other forms, this book stands alone.
This book may decrease dependence on lawyers, but it may not. It will have served its purpose if it helps you to recognize the occasions in which you do need a lawyer, and then helps you to use your lawyer more efficiently.
This book presents a large-scale corpus-driven study of progressives in 'real' English and 'school' English, combining an analysis of general linguistic interest with a pedagogically motivated one. A systematic comparative analysis of more than 10,000 progressive forms taken from the largest existing corpora of spoken British English and from a small corpus of EFL textbook texts highlights numerous differences between actual language use and textbook language concerning the distribution of progressives, their preferred contexts, favoured functions, and typical lexical-grammatical patterns.
Winner of the "Wissenschaftspreis Hannover 2006" for outstanding research monographs
